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Rows of houses all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out
This machine will, will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am under
Be a world child, form a circle
Before we all go under
And fade out again and fade out again
Cracked eggs, dead birds
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death, can see its beady eyes
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out again
Immerse your soul in love
Immerse your soul in love
I can feel their blue hands touching me
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out
This machine will, will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am under
Be a world child, form a circle
Before we all go under
And fade out again and fade out again
Cracked eggs, dead birds
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death, can see its beady eyes
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out again
Immerse your soul in love
Immerse your soul in love
Lyrics submitted by piesupreme, edited by GoodOldFashionedLoverBoy, Yazardshir
Track duration: 04:14
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What this means is that however much satisfaction, happiness or success we experience through life, it will eventually have to end, and this world that people have been sustaining for millions of years, will one day rot away.The devil will get the last laugh
"‘Street Spirit’ has no resolve… It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end."-Thom Yorke
Over the next 50-100 years we will enter a Malthusian Collapse and billions of people will die. Our population will be reduced to a few hundred million. We'll bring most of the other species on the planet with us too (“Cracked eggs, dead birds Scream as they fight for life”). If you are young you will likely die before old age. Your children will more likely die before old age. If they survive to have kids your grandchildren will even more likely die before old age. There will be a few survivors, the lucky and/or strong.
Our options for averting this catastrophe are growing slimmer by the year. We are quickly approaching the point of no return, the downward slide down the back side of the Hubbert Curve. Energy doesn’t care. It either is available or it isn’t. If it isn’t, we die. No bargaining available (“This machine will, will not communicate”)
What's frightening is that I'm about as qualified as you can get to make this determination (“I can feel death, can see its beady eyes”). I've spent years in school studying these things, years working in these fields, and years analysing the situation, and can spout off all the numbers you'd ever want to hear about it. We had the chance to prevent this decades ago and we were warned, but we didn't act and now it’s probably too late. The gun is cocked (“All these things into position”). Now we must embrace it (“Be a world child, form a circle Before we all go under”).
Every day this eats at my soul (“These thoughts and the strain I am under”). But every once in a while the immensity of the numbers I dispassionately write about really sinks in and I am overcome with grief and despair (“I can feel their blue hands touching me”). This will be the end of the world for all intents and purposes. Hardly anyone understands. If they do have the capacity to understand, they don't want to believe the numbers. They deny. They hope. The media lies to distract. But one day we will all realize. (“All these things we'll one day swallow whole”)
There is no way to solve overpopulation other than population reduction. There is no light at the end of the tunnel for humanity. Our only salvation is spirituality (“Immerse your soul in love”) and the knowledge that once we are gone, Life on Earth will pick up the pieces and continue on for another few hundred million years.
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..so to me this song is not upsetting. on the contrary ,full of hope at the end ! :)
I think it's probably the darkest, most despairing line in the song. Not even love, the most beautiful thing in the world, can save you from the innevitable.